💳 What's an IPO? Digital bank Chime has filed its confidential paperwork to go public. This isn't the biggest surprise, as the company hired Morgan Stanley bankers back in September. Regardless, this will be welcome news to the venture community. Read more
💰 Cash for a coding assistant: AI coding assistant startup Anysphere raised its second round of funding in four months, securing $100 million in this latest round that values it at $2.6 billion. The round was led by Thrive Capital. Read more
📈 Dollars for Decart: Decart, a startup building a fully integrated AI research lab, raised a $32 million round that values the company at more than $500 million just months after it emerged from stealth. Read more
🫵 Knock, knock, it's the GDPR: The Bavarian data protection authority, which enforces the rules of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, told Sam Altman's World (Worldcoin) company that it would have to comprehensively delete user data if they request it. Read more
🎨 AI airbrushing: Instagram teased a new set of AI tools that would allow creators to change essentially everything in a video using text prompts. While the tools look impressive in the video Instagram released, who knows how they will look in practice. Read more
